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COVID-19 Return to work assessment of employees
Guideline for HR in interviewing the candidate: It is critical to establish trust with the employee. You must assure the person that the questions are in their personal interest – not to pry, but in a genuine attempt to ensure their health and that of the entire...
Guidance on employees in relation to COVID-19
Guidance on vulnerable employees and workplace accommodation in relation to COVID-19 Document prepared by Academic Group within the Occupational Health and Safety Workstream of the National Department of Health – Covid-19 Response Download Document
10 Things to Outlast Lockdown
1. Stick to a routine: Keep to a routine. Don’t stay in your dressing gown the whole day, even if you think your partner/family is OK with it. You are now sharing a house with your partner/family that don’t normally see you during the day. Bear that in mind. Be...
Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity Management
“Have you ever left an interaction with someone who is not from your cultural group, wondering what just happened.? When you left, did you think? “Was that person just rude to me, or is it a ‘cultural thing?’
Changes to the Employment Equity Regulations
The Department of Labour published some proposed changes to the Employment Equity Regulations during November last year. This impacts the way businesses and organizations have to report by the 1st October 2009. One of the most important ways in which the regulations...
Metaphor
What happened to good old satire and metaphor in the past week? To listen to the controversy around depicting the justice system as a woman about to be raped, made me feel as though no one understands political satire anymore. The cartoon was designed to be...
What exactly is respect?
When you ask people from different cultures, what they deem important about their values - most people will say: "respect". The truth is, that respect is not the same thing to all people. We have huge misunderstanding daily in South Africa on the basis of our...
Give us the manual!
Tradition in the legal profession has it that it takes years to groom a judge. Most people travel a long way, before they are able to don the robes and walk the hallowed corridors of the Judges’ Chambers. During that path, many subtle and sometimes not so subtle...